Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems

With both passion and precision, Lucifer at the Starlite explores life's dual nature: good and evil, light and dark, suffering and moments of unexpected joy. Whether looking outward to events on the world stage-the war in Iraq, the 2004 Asian tsunami-or inward at struggles with the self, these poems aim at the heart and against the feeling that Lucifer may have already won the day.

from "Lucifer at the Starlite" *Here's my bright idea for life on earth:

better management. The CEO

has lost touch with the details. I'm worth

as much, but I care; I come down here, I show

my face, I'm a real regular. A toast:

To our boys and girls in the war, grinding

through sand, to everybody here, our host

who's mostly mist, like methane rising*